Coffee Or No Coffee, I Will Write Like A Madman

Where has the time gone? I have spent 6 hours of my night reading away at Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot. And, I still haven’t finished the reading assigment for either one of them. Forty more pages in McEwan’s novel and 60 in King’s. I don’t even feel like blogging at all. Besides, I don’t have much to offer to the world tonight.

Novel update: I am completely restarting this whole thing. Well, I’m going to go back to my original idea. I think I captured a small portion of it in the first chapter, so that’ll stay. I still haven’t decided on the first-person / third person POV. I suppose I’ll have to know by tomorrow. That’ll leave me with approximately 2,273 words to write every day through the rest of National Novel Writing Month. Crap! With a capital C at that! Whatever, I’m going to finish this thing, one way or another. I don’t care if I only write 50,000 words of pure CRAP. I will finish. By God, I will finish if it’s the last thing I do in my lifetime. I will go without sleep for a week if I have to. I might even take up coffee-drinking for 22 days. Coffee??? Ughhh. I will do what it takes. So, if you have actually read any part of the novel so far, disregard everything you’ve read. I will start fresh. Coffee or no coffee, I will write like a madman.

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Ugh, I did NaNoWriMo last year and couldn’t stand what I was writing everyday. I thought the 2000 words or so per day wouldn’t be too complicated, but then it got bad, and then I would look back over the “fiction” and I couldn’t take what was there.

You always start with a good idea…but then it starts to flop without the chance to think it through. Good luck, though. Coffee drinking MIGHT be a good idea as well.

Thanks for the comment on my site was well. I don’t have many male visitors, so you just upped the count by ONE!

Don’t start over! Add what ever you have on to the current story to boost word counts. Just have your MC realize that he/she has been reading a novel they rather dislikes, throw it away, and then start the new story.

And isn’t that Stephen King book just the most motivating and entertaining thing you can read? 🙂

2000 words a day is cake. Just sit down, disregard quality, and type like crazy for an hour or so and you’ll be done! Good luck!

Thanks for the comments. I’m not completely restarting the novel, I’m just restarting with the same content. I had to change a few things in the first couple of chapters and get back to my original concept. Hopefully, I’ll get caught up and finish this thing. No, I will finish this thing.

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